Today’s IT departments are under increasing pressure to manage and support expanding computer resources while at the same time reducing costs. Server virtualization, which lets multiple operating systems run concurrently on the same physical server, has become a broadly accepted method to meet these requirements. By converting under-utilized physical servers into virtual machines that run on a single physical server, organizations can reduce space, power and hardware costs in the data center. Because virtual machines are generally much faster to recover in a disaster than physical computers are, virtualization also increases server uptime and reliability.
